20.500.12556/DKUM-96586 Content analysis of medical and health apps’ privacy policies Privacy is a fundamental human right and is widely end extensively protected in the western industrialized world. The recent advances in technologies, especially in the use of applications developed and designed for mobile devices, have led to the rise of its abuse on one hand and a higher awareness of the importance of privacy on the other side. Legal texts protecting privacy have attempted to rectify some of the problems, but the ecosystem giants and mobile apps developers adapted. In this paper, we analyze which data mobile apps developers are collecting. We have focused on a sample of apps in the medical and health field. The research was done using collocations analysis. A relationship between a base word and its collocative partners was sought. The initial visual results have led us to more detailed studies that unveiled some worrying patterns. Namely, applications are collect data about the users and their activities, but also about their family members, medical diagnoses, treatments, and alike, going well beyond the “need to function” / functionality threshold. privacy collocation GDPR apps similarity medical health fitness informacijski sistemi zasebnost semantika true false true IOS Press Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik https://ebooks.iospress.nl/ © 2021 The authors and IOS Press Znanstveno delo 2026-01-20 09:46:36 2026-01-20 09:46:36 2026-01-22 03:08:20 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 Str. 188-203 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2021-01-01 004.6 136274179 136293379 10.3233/FAIA210486 FAIA-343-FAIA210486.pdf FAIA-343-FAIA210486.pdf 1 7CCC60A2AFCBC255F94109E49D9CE611 9299b14a13adcb32426f2e44870e65f05816a8897f377c0a37a3e905bf44d04a 064a80af-f5dd-11f0-8ae2-00155d580e02 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=202247 https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/58890 0 0d60de5c-f5dd-11f0-8ae2-00155d580e02 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=202248 Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko 0 0 0